How is this being pigheaded? In my opinion, this is leadership. If
*something* isn't implemented soon, the network is going to have some real
problems, right at the
time when adoption is starting to accelerate. I've been seeing nothing but
navel-gazing and circlejerks on this issue for weeks now. Gavin or Mike or
someone at some
point needs to step up and say follow me.
Braun Brelin
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:00 PM, insecurity@national.shitposting.agency
wrote:
Are you really that pig headed that you are going to try and blow up the
entire system just to get your way? A bunch of ignorant redditors do not
make consensus, mercifully.
On 2015-05-29 12:39, Gavin Andresen wrote:
What do other people think?
If we can't come to an agreement soon, then I'll ask for help
reviewing/submitting patches to Mike's Bitcoin-Xt project that
implement a big increase now that grows over time so we may never have
to go through all this rancor and debate again.
I'll then ask for help lobbying the merchant services and exchanges
and hosted wallet companies and other bitcoind-using-infrastructure
companies (and anybody who agrees with me that we need bigger blocks
sooner rather than later) to run Bitcoin-Xt instead of Bitcoin Core,
and state that they are running it. We'll be able to see uptake on the
network by monitoring client versions.
Perhaps by the time that happens there will be consensus bigger blocks
are needed sooner rather than later; if so, great! The early
deployment will just serve as early testing, and all of the software
already deployed will ready for bigger blocks.
But if there is still no consensus among developers but the bigger
blocks now movement is successful, I'll ask for help getting big
miners to do the same, and use the soft-fork block version voting
mechanism to (hopefully) get a majority and then a super-majority
willing to produce bigger blocks. The purpose of that process is to
prove to any doubters that they'd better start supporting bigger
blocks or they'll be left behind, and to give them a chance to upgrade
before that happens.
Because if we can't come to consensus here, the ultimate authority for
determining consensus is what code the majority of merchants and
exchanges and miners are running.
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